Canning With Ms. Renee

 I forgot about posting these until tonight when I was looking at Ms Renee" tomatoes.  We had lots and then the CSA box had even more.  We were overrun with tomatoes.  This is a lot of tomatoes for us.  So now we have tomatoes for chili and soups, tomato sauce and hot salsa in the pantry.  I'm pretty excited about it!

 

This afternoon I helped Ms. Renee can her tomatoes from her first ever garden.  We are both so proud!

Two More Beds Finished

 Everything looks so naked.

 

But I keep telling myself that I don't want to get in the same mess as last year.  A good fall clean up makes spring clean up a little more enjoyable.

Fall Clean-Up Begins

I have a love-hate relationship with this time of year.  I love that the yard has given all it has all spring and summer long.  I have enjoyed the flowers and the vegetables.  But now comes the hard part.  The never ending part.  And just when I think it is all finished, the leaves on the big oak and all my neighbors leaves (JK Mr John) start falling...and that my friends is a never-ending battle.  But this year I will have help.  The chickens are getting a layer of leaves in their coops for coverage in the winter.  They say that we are going to have a really bad winter.  Hopefully the leaves will give them bugs to eat and insulation on the cold hard ground.

 

I started in the right front corner by Mr. John's and Ms. Renee's fence.  Also rearranging 'yard art' as I go.  I'll make my way slowly but surly around the perimeter of the yard first.  Then flower bed by flower bed.

Tomorrow I will gather seeds from the Cardinal vine to use for next year.  If you'd like me to send you some just leave me a note in the comment section.

Now to load in all into the back of the truck to take to be mulched.  Tomorrow back at it but not sure how much I will accomplish...almost all the yahoos will be here.  Little bits, little bits at a time and I'll have it all finished by December!

 

Yellow Has Always Been My Favorite Color

Doodles and I were waiting for the bus the other morning and found this little beauty hiding in the weeds down by the road.  Guess I better get to weeding that bed before I have no flowers at all.  The deer are helping me out but they are eating the flowers.  I watched three graze their way to the woods this morning.

I am so proud of these sunflowers.  I have never had any luck with them but this year they are going crazy.  Some seeds I gathered, some seeds came from Betsy and some seeds I have no idea where they came from.  So I just mixed them all together in a shovel and shoved them in the ground.  Next year I will do the same but along with seeds I save from these beauties I will as some of those red ones that are way shorter.  And behind the Little Girls coop is always going to be my sunflower bed!